Australia Gasshuku with Sensei Joe Roses

Australia Gasshuku with Sensei Joe Roses

The
AOGKF held their annual NSW state Gasshuku in Crookwell on April
7th and achieved large numbers for a one day
seminar...

Crookwell is a country
town with a small population, about 40 mins from the city of
Goulburn. When a chance to bid for the hosting rights for the
New South Wales state Gasshuku for 2013 became available, little
Crookwell was keen to prove it could achieve big things!

The Gasshuku was held in
the Crookwell Dojo, part of the memorial hall complex and the
training was split between two rooms. The main hall had a
beautiful sprung timber floor and martial arts mats were laid
down in another smaller room.

A lot of preparation
went into the first official event of the year for the AOGKF,
following their trip to New Zealand to train with Nakamura
Sensei. Over 85 enthusiastic participants showed up to
Crookwell, break the Australian record for attendance at a one
day seminar!

To begin with we all
crammed into the main hall for an hour of training. 30 minutes
of Jumbi Undo was taken by Sensei Kevin Nash (AOGKF Chairman)
and he was followed by Sensei Joe Roses (AOGKF Head Instructor
and IOGKF 7th Dan) who had the sweat running with an
exciting basics session.

Our Pee-wee members then
moved into the matted rooms for another 30 minutes of training
with Sensei Joe Roses. The smiles on their faces said it all!
The rest of the Gasshuku was taken by Sensei David Lambert, who
explained how to generate power from your spine and shoulder
blade and incorporated the ‘fish up’ training we all learnt from
Nakamura Sensei in New Zealand a month before.

Following a short break,
we split into group training. Black & Brown Belts, Orange
–Purple Belt, White-Yellow belt and Pee-wees. Each group had the
opportunity to learn from all of the AOGKF Executive committee
members and special guest instructor, Sensei Geoff Tait from our
Orange Dojo. Sensei Geoff had just returned from Japan where he
spent two weeks training under Terauchi Sensei.

Time flew and Sensei Joe
decided he wanted to finish with a demonstration. He chose
members out of the crowd and put them on the spot to perform
Kata’s and applications. Everyone really rose to the occasion
and each performance was met with great applause

We ended with a great
family BBQ at a nearby park. It was so great to see so many
IOGKF members all socialising and enjoying themselves under the
banner of Goju-ryu! Thank you to all those who attended and made
this event the success it was!

We ended with a great family BBQ at a nearby park. It was so
great to see so many IOGKF members all socialising and enjoying
themselves under the banner of Goju-ryu! Thank you to all those
who attended and made this event the success it was!